Proposed systematic names for powers of 10

Gillion system

In 2001, Russ Rowlett, Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill proposed that, to avoid confusion, the Latin based short scale and long scale systems should be replaced by an unambiguous system using Greek-derived numerical prefixes for naming large numbers that would be based on powers of one thousand: [1]

Googol and others

SI-derived

This is a table of English names for positive rational numbers less than or equal to 1. It also lists alternative names, but there is no widespread convention for the names of extremely small positive numbers.

Volume of a cube with edge length .
Length of the diagonal of a square with side length 2.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.

3.162 277 660 168 379 331 998 893 544 433

= area of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a square with side length .

3.316 624 790 355 399 849 114 932 736 671

Length of the space diagonal of a rectangular box.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.

3.464 101 615 137 754 587 054 892 683 012

Length of the space diagonal of a cube with edge length 2.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a rectangle.
Length of the diagonal of a square with side length .